Nobuaki Hamaguchi is a professor at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB) at Kobe University, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. degree in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests are in regional/industrial policies and economic integration. From 2011 to date, he has been a program director and a faculty fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI). He is the co-author of Spatial Economics for Building Back Better: The Japanese Experience (Springer 2021) and Cutting the Distance: Benefits and Tensions from the Recent Active Engagement of China, Japan, and Korea in Latin America (Springer 2018).   Danielly Ramos, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Institute of International Relations and director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Brasília (UnB). She coordinates the Asia–Latin America and Caribbean research group (ASIALAC). Her research focuses on Brazil’s foreign policy and Asia–Latin America relations. Her publications probe China’s foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, inter alia, especially connections between Chinese multinational corporations’ investments and Brazil's domestic political economy. She is the co-author of “Rise and Fall of Triumphalism in Brazilian Foreign Policy: The International Strategy of the Workers Party’s Governments” in Status and the Rise of Brazil (Palgrave Macmillan)　and “One Step Closer: The Politics and the Economics of China's Strategy in Brazil and the Case of the Electric Power Sector” in China–Latin America Relations in the 21st Century (Springer 2020).